“Last month I paid a visit to the institute
They had the Dropout keeping kids in the school”

Alex Wiley, Chance The Rapper and their Save Money buddies clearly grew up under the shadow of a very specific, very influential Chi-Town emcee. Taking Kanye’s classic “Spaceship” – a blue-collar ballad that had people working terrible, dead-end, just-enough-to-pay-rent-and-maybe-buy-some-beer muttering “if my manager insults me again, I will be assaulting him” – and penning an unofficial sequel? Ambitious.

But here we are, deeming “Spaceship II” worthy. Dripping with homage to Kanye’s College Dropout days – from the “Overnight Celebrity” intro to the “yeah I stole, never got caught,” hook – all I can do is sit back, smile, and wrap my mind around the fact that cats who clearly had their Walkmen spinning the exact same maroon-and-yellow CD that I did when I first really got a taste for Hip-Hop have next.

the way your opening sentence reads, it would seem to suggest that you weren’t really clear on that point. Since he’s part of a different collective, called the Village, it would have made sense that you might say that instead of Save Money or at least mention the Village alongside of Save Money since anybody who is part of the Village would presumably also have grown up under that same Kanye West shadow.

but fair enough, if you knew that he wasn’t Save Money then you knew he wasn’t Save Money.